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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 1
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge—If sinners entice thee, consent thou not—Those who hearken to wisdom shall dwell safely.
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The</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 4: 32; Prov. 10: 1; Prov. 25: 1.">proverbs</a> of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
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To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
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To receive the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Edification; TG Teachable.">instruction</a> of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
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To give subtilty to the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 8: 5.">simple</a>, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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A wise <i>man</i> will hear, and will increase <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Education; TG Learning.">learning</a>; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR riddles.">dark</a> sayings.
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&#182; The <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/7a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR reverence of the LORD; TG Reverence.">fear</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> the beginning of <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Discernment, Spiritual; TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a>: <i>but</i> fools despise <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/1/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Wisdom.">wisdom</a> and <sup>d</sup><a href="prov/1/7d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Problem-Solving.">instruction</a>.
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My son, hear the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Education.">instruction</a> of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Children, Duties of.">mother</a>:
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For they <i>shall be</i> an <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 25: 12.">ornament</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 3: 22.">grace</a> unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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&#182; My son, if sinners <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Temptation.">entice</a> thee, <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 1: 1 (1-2); Eph. 5: 11 (8-13).">consent</a> thou not.
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR ambush, lie in wait.">lurk</a> privily for the innocent without cause:
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Let us <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 124: 3.">swallow</a> them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 28: 1.">pit</a>:
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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
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My son, walk not thou in the way with them; <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Abstinence; TG Self-mastery.">refrain</a> thy foot from their path:
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For their feet run to <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 59: 7; 2 Ne. 19: 17; D&C 64: 16.">evil</a>, and make haste to shed blood.
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Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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And they lay wait for their <i>own</i> blood; they lurk privily for their <i>own</i> lives.
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So <i>are</i> the ways of every one that is <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Selfishness.">greedy</a> of gain; <i>which</i> taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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&#182; Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, <i>saying,</i>
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?  and the scorners delight in their <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Malice.">scorning</a>, and fools <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hate.">hate</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/1/22c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a>?
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Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 42: 1; D&C 19: 38; D&C 95: 4.">pour</a> out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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&#182; Because I have called, and ye <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">refused</a>; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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But ye have set at <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 4: 21.">nought</a> all my <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Counsel.">counsel</a>, and would none of my reproof:
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I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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Then shall they <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Access to.">call</a> upon me, but I will not <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/1/28b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 10: 14 (13-14); 2 Kgs. 3: 13; Job 27: 9; Ps. 66: 18; Jer. 2: 28 (26-37); D&C 101: 7.">answer</a>; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
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For that they hated knowledge, and did not <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Agency.">choose</a> the fear of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>:
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They would none of my counsel: they despised all my <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reproof.">reproof</a>.
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Therefore shall they eat of the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/1/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 6: 19 (18-25).">fruit</a> of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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